The Critical Thought Of W B Yeats

Author : Wit Pietrzak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319600895

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The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats by Wit Pietrzak Pdf

This book focuses on W. B. Yeats’s critical writings, an aspect of his oeuvre which has been given limited treatment so far. It traces his critical work from his earliest articles, through to his occult treatises, and all the way to his last pamphlets, in which he sought to delineate the idea of a literary culture: a community of people willing to credit poetry with the central role in imagining and organising social praxis throughout society. The chapters of this study investigate the contexts in which Yeats’s thought developed, his many disputes over the shape of Irish cultural politics, the future of poetry and the place literature occupies in the world. What transpires is an image of Yeats who is strung between the impulses of faith in the existence of a supernatural order and ironic scepticism as to the possibility of ever capturing that order in language. This study is distinguished by its grounding of Yeats's critical agenda in a broader context through textual analysis. In addition, it organises and systematises his conceptions of poetry and its social role through its approach to his criticism as a fully-fledged area of his artistic practice. The monograph has been written within the framework of the project financed by The National Science Centre, Cracow, Poland, pursuant to the decision number DEC-2013/09/D/HS2/02782.

Author : Norman A. Jeffares
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136212246

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W.B. Yeats by Norman A. Jeffares Pdf

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Author : Amy Geraldine Stock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015000233588

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W.B. Yeats by Amy Geraldine Stock Pdf

Author : Balachandra Rajan
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:32000003008986

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W.B. Yeats: a Critical Introduction by Balachandra Rajan Pdf

Author : David A. Ross
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438126920

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Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats by David A. Ross Pdf

Examines the life and writings of William Butler Yeats, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.

Author : Stan Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0389209031

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W.B. Yeats by Stan Smith Pdf

An original, yet lucid and accessible introduction to the often difficult poetry of W.B. Yeats. No poet in this century has shaped his work so directly out of reaction to the history of his times. Yeats's antithetical vision, his fascination with conflict, energy, turbulence and the bodiliness of being, his sense of poetry as a dramatic process, indicate how closely bound up are the stylistic and the thematic dimensions of his art. As a poet of carnality as much as of politics, Yeats is unexcelled. The aim of this book is to show what an exciting writer he is, to reveal the relevance and contemporaneity of his work, even in its more esoteric aspects, and to make its study less intimidating than it can sometimes seem.

Author : Forrest Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015020683143

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W. B. Yeats by Forrest Reid Pdf

An excellent survey of the work of the greatest Irish poet of his time. Includes chapters on Early Poems, The Lyrical Dramas, Prose Tales & Sketches, Plays for an Irish Theatre, Philosophy, The Later Lyrics & a Bibliography.

Author : Richard J. Finneran
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011547133

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Critical Essays on W.B. Yeats by Richard J. Finneran Pdf

Collection of articles and essays originally published 1958-1983.

Author : David Pierce
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015017960835

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W.B. Yeats by David Pierce Pdf

Author : Brian Arkins
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215378253

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The Thought of W.B. Yeats by Brian Arkins Pdf

This study focuses on the ideas of W.B. Yeats and explores his thinking on a wide range of fundamental subjects. Since opposites are central to Yeats's thought, the book begins with an analysis of this topic. The author then examines Yeats's views on religion, sex and politics, again scrutinising the opposites at play. The author considers Yeats's adherence to various anti-empirical belief systems and the transformation of his view of sex as largely a romantic concern to his later more 'earthy' perspective. Yeats's fundamentally Tory political inclinations are examined alongside his regrettable espousal of eugenics. In the second part of the book Yeats's view of history and of human character in A Vision are analysed. The author discusses Yeats's two versions of 'Sophocles' and his poems on Byzantium. The final chapter on Yeats's style stresses the pervasive use of embedded phrases and of terminal questions in the poems.

Author : John Unterecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UOM:39015004941582

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Yeats by John Unterecker Pdf

Presents many brilliant critical writings which reveal both the method and the achievement of William Butler Yeats who used symbolism to elevate the subjective into statements of universal meaning.

Author : William Butler Yeats,Richard J. Finneran,George Bornstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1416556877

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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays by William Butler Yeats,Richard J. Finneran,George Bornstein Pdf

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IV: Early Essays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars George Bornstein and George Mills Harper. These volumes include virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts with extensive explanatory notes. Early Essays, edited by the internationally esteemed Yeats scholars George Bornstein and the late Richard J. Finneran, includes the contents of the two most important collections of Yeats's critical prose, Ideas of Good and Evil(1903) and The Cutting of an Agate(1912, 1919). Among the seminal essays are considerations of Blake, Shakespeare, Shelley, Spenser, and Synge, as well as an extended discussion of the Japanese Noh theatre. The first scholarly edition of these materials, Early Essays offers a corrected text and detailed annotation of all allusions. Several appendices gather materials from early printings which were later excluded, as well as illuminating black-and-white illustrations. Early Essays is an essential sourcebook for understanding Yeats's career as both writer and literary critic, and for the development of modern poetry and criticism. Here, Yeats works out many of his key ideas on poetry, politics, and the theater. He gives interpretations of writers critical to his development and presents a compelling vision of Ireland and the modern world during the last decade of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth. As T. S. Eliot remarked, Yeats "was one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them." This volume displays a crucial part of that history.

Author : John Unterecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003762270

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Yeats by John Unterecker Pdf

Presents many brilliant critical writings which reveal both the method and the achievement of William Butler Yeats who used symbolism to elevate the subjective into statements of universal meaning.

Author : Nicholas Drake
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015024907670

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The Poetry of W.B. Yeats by Nicholas Drake Pdf

A central work of modernism, The Waste Land evokes a world of moral, sexual and spiritual decay. In it Eliot gives voice to the deep intellectual uncertainty that had existed from the 1870s and to his own sense of the collapse of civilization. Stephen Coote's critical study outlines the historical background that led Eliot to his bleak vision of humanity. He gives a close account of the development of the poem and disucsses fully its arguments, allusions, poetic techniques and patterns of imagery. There is also a chapter on the crucial role played by Ezra Pound in editing the manuscript. Above all, he seeks to elucidate the way in which Eliot drew upon the rich tradition of past centuries, bringing together myth and life-enhancing poetry to create a work that has become a seminal part of our heritage.

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0192842838

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The Major Works by William Butler Yeats Pdf

This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to give theessence of his work and thinking.W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and thesymbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occultwritings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of his letters.This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote.